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“Win” is to be victorious. It is a fusion of the Old English word “winnan” which means “to work at or struggle for,” and the word “gewinnan” which means “to succeed by struggling.” Winnan and gewinnan are both from the Proto-Germanic word “wennanan” which means “to seek to gain.”
 

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Guy Brasfield Park (1872-1946) was the Democratic governor of Missouri from 1933-1937.  Governor Park earned his law degree from the University of Missouri, and worked as a lawyer in Denver, Colorado for a short time before returning to Platte County, Missouri in 1900 where he began a life in public service as the City Attorney.  He was a member of the Missouri State Constitutional Convention in 1922, and a Fifth Judicial Circuit Judge from 1923-1932. 

As Governor, Park helped establish state relief programs which coordinated with federal programs instituted by the Roosevelt administration during the Depression.  In his honor, Platte County established the Guy B. Park Conservation Area, which is a wildlife preserve offering bird watching, fishing, hiking and hunting to visitors. 

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Senator Brien McMahon (D) made a name for himself through chairing the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy, and he wrote the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. He announced his candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination on May 1, 1952. His campaign slogan was, “The Man is McMahon,” and his main platform was to insure world peace through atomic weapons. Sadly, he died on July 28, 1952. Connecticut held a special election to fill McMahon’s vacant seat, won by Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush respectively. McMahon is memorialized in a stamp, a high school, and a residence hall at the University of Connecticut.

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Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie were the Democratic nominees for the 1968 Presidential Election. Humphrey entered the race after the primaries and ran against Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kenned to seek the Democratic nomination.  With the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the escalating conflict in Vietnam, the 1968 race became very controversial for the American people and the candidates.

At the Democratic National Convention, Senator George McGovern stepped up to run as Robert Kennedy’s successor.  In Chicago, police and the National Guard worked to contain the rioting outside the convention.  Humphrey won the nomination on the first ballot, and chose Senator Edmund Muskie from Maine as his running mate.  Six foot four-inch tall Muskie was often compared to Abraham Lincoln.  In a close race, the pair narrowly lost the election to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. 

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Ronald Reagan, the 40^th President of the United States, was particularly well known for his economic policies. Dubbed “Reaganomics,” these polices sought to reduce government spending growth rate and government regulation, reduce federal income tax, and reduce inflation. People often debate over how successful Reaganomics were, but statistics do show several facts. By the time he left office, the unemployment and inflation rates shrunk, while the American economy grew. However, government spending increased, as did the public debt.

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In 1964, Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson ran for president against Republican Barry Goldwater with Hubert Humphrey as his Vice Presidential running mate. Johnson won in a landslide victory. He carried 44 states and 486 electoral college votes while Goldwater won 6 states and 52 electoral college votes. Additionally, Johnson's popular vote was 61% - the highest since James Monroe's 1820 re-election. Johnson's presidency is mainly known for the "War on Poverty," civil rights movement, and increased involvement in the Vietnam War, for which he garnered much criticism.

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James R. Thompson was the longest serving Governor of the state of Illinois.  The Republican was first elected in 1976 and served until 1991.  A graduate of Northwestern Law School, prior to his role as governor, Thompson served as the federal prosecutor for the state and convicted many high level politicians of corruption.  He was a popular governor and is credited with effectively handling the state’s finances by balancing the budget during a difficult national recession.  After leaving office, Thompson held high positions in private law firms, and was one of 10 members appointed to the 9/11 Commission.

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Wendell Lewis Willkie was the Republican Party's candidate for United States President in 1940. Willkie was an attorney and a longtime Democrat activist, but changed his party registration to Republican in 1939. Unlike other potential Republican nominees to run against incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Willkie favored supporting Britain and other U.S. allies in World War II. His position would change throughout the general election, and Roosevelt was elected to a third term on November 5, 1940. After the election, Willkie made two international trips as Roosevelt's informal envoy. The two later discussed forming a liberal political party once the war was over, but Willkie died in 1944 before the idea could come to fruition. 

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Thaddeus Thomson Hutcheson, Sr. (1915-1986) was a Houston attorney who became the Republican candidate in the 1957 special election to fill Senator Price Daniel’s seat when he vacated to become the Governor of Texas. Hutcheson won 23 percent of the votes, but lost to Ralph Yarborough, who was Daniel’s gubernatorial primary opponent. The 1957 election was the only political race Hutcheson would enter.

Hutcheson served in the U.S. Navy in World War II as a Lieutenant Commander assigned to the Destroyer Escort U.S.S. Swayze. He was a partner in his father’s law practice in Houston along with his older brother, Palmer Hutcheson, Jr., and cousin, Thomas Taliaferro. The firm was known as Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, and subsequently became Hutcheson and Grundy.

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Harry S. Truman was the Vice President for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for only four months before becoming the 33rd President of the United States following Roosevelt's death. He remained president from 1945 to 1953. He is responsible for ending World War II with Japan by utilizing atomic bombs, starting the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe's broken economy, leading the Cold War against Russia and China, and getting involved in the Korean War, among other things.

In the presidential election of 1948, Truman ran against Republican Thomas E. Dewey. His pick for Vice President was Alben W. Barkley. Truman won 303 electoral college votes to Dewey's 189, giving him a second term as president.